mpc
A command line tool to interface MPD.

Features
* Bash tab completion
* Can pipe output of other commands into mpc

Screenshots
mpc Screenshot 1 (7/23/2003)

Download
Current Version is 0.12.1
Source tar.bz2 tar.gz
Arch Linux: pacman -S mpc
Debian (unstable): apt-get install mpc
Gentoo: emerge mpc
FreeBSD: in the ports tree under audio/mpc
NetBSD: in the ports tree under audio/mpc

Installation from Source
1) download mpc
2) untar and unzip
3) configure (type "./configure")
4) compile (type "make")
5) (Optional) as root: make install

Configuration
For bash tab completion: $ cat mpc-bashrc >> ~/.bashrc
Set the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT.

For Help
man mpc

Thanks
mpc is the brainchild of MaxieZ, who wrote a prototype version in perl and did all the bash completion work.